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> At the end of the day, you can compile and run anything on your machine. Iff you have a Mac. And even then, you need to recompile it every week.
by Nullabillity 8y ago
> At the end of the day, you can compile and run anything on your machine.
Iff you have a Mac. And even then, you need to recompile it every week.
- banana_giraffe 8y agoI assume you're being hyperbolic to make a point, but really the need to recompile yearly when my dev cert is up for renewal isn't that bad. I'd prefer something else for my personal toy applications so I don't even need to bother with this, but it's not a huge deal to me.
- steffan 8y agoThe parent is correct if you're not using the Developer Certificate, but relying on the Free Provisioning Profile - as the name implies, it is free, but it only lasts for 7 days instead of the 1 year you get with a paid developer account / Developer Certificate. The advantage of the Free Profile is that (afaik) it can't be revoked or censored. Disadvantage is 7 day lifespan.
- banana_giraffe 8y agoAhh, thanks, I forget the free version exists. That is a very annoying limitation of it.
- twr 8y agoApple also weirdly limits the capabilities available to free developer accounts, like AutoFill and built-in IPSec/IKEv2 VPN support. https://help.apple.com/developer-account/#/dev21218dfd6 https://help.apple.com/developer-account/#/dev21218dfd6
- saagarjha 8y agoYou don't necessarily have to have a Mac, but this makes it significantly easier.